320 km
13 days
Crosses
Emilia-Romagna · Toscana · Umbria
Our estimate, at twenty-five kilometres a day. A walk is not measured in days: it is measured in legs.
In the catalogue since 5 gennaio 2024
Traced from the ministry’s official GPX. North is up.
17 comuni
The comuni it crosses. The archive arrives in separate pieces, so the order here is not the walking order.
Makers and houses you meet in the regions this route crosses.
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Goldsmith working in the old techniques, with a jewel museum and a school inside the workshop.
Via di San Niccolò 115r · Firenze
WebsiteSilk woven on twelve looms, six of them eighteenth century, one of them built to a drawing by Leonardo.
Via Lorenzo Bartolini 4 · Firenze
WebsiteWood, carving and gilding: frames, mouldings and objects, since 1895.
Via di Santo Spirito 13-15r · Firenze
WebsiteFormer convent and prison, now a contemporary art district and public space
Piazza delle Murate, 50122 Firenze FI, Italia · Firenze
WebsiteBookbinding and marbled paper, in the same premises since 1856. Demonstrations and marbling by appointment.
Piazza Pitti 37r · Firenze
Hand bookbinding since 1980: repairs of old volumes, new bindings in leather and marbled paper.
Via de’ Bardi 17 · Firenze
WebsiteFlorentine bespoke tailoring, cut and sewn in the house, in the same shopfront since the 1960s.
Via dei Fossi 43r · Firenze
WebsitePerfumes composed by hand, bespoke fragrances by appointment, a museum and a garden of aromatic plants on the roof.
Via de’ Bardi 12 · Firenze
WebsiteGoldsmithing from drawing to casting to setting, in Renaissance Florentine technique.
Via Ferdinando Zannetti 14-16r · Firenze
WebsiteCommesso fiorentino: pictures cut and fitted in hard and semi-precious stone, the Medici technique.
Piazza de’ Pitti 23-24r · Firenze
WebsiteLeather cut, tooled and gilded by hand, in the old dormitory of the Santa Croce friars.
Via di San Giuseppe 5r · Firenze
WebsiteBespoke and hand-lasted shoes, with a shoemaking school attached.
Via di San Niccolò 2 · Firenze
WebsitePanforte, ricciarelli and cantucci made daily on the premises, alongside the salumi and oil of the province.
Via di Città 71-73 · Siena
Ceramics and nativity figures made as single pieces, since 1979.
Il Campo 28 · Siena
WebsiteMetal beaten by hand, copper and wrought iron, with nineteenth-century tools still in use.
Vicolo della Fortuna 33 · Siena
Sienese ceramics painted by hand, in the black, white and terracotta of the city.
Via di Città 74 · Siena
Hand-painted ceramics: reproductions of old Sienese painting, contrada colours, the countryside.
Via di Fontebranda 77 · Siena
Embroidery worked by hand, drawn from medieval Sienese painting.
Via di Città 61 · Siena
Stained glass since 1987: commissions, restoration, and small courses in cartooning and painting on glass.
Via della Galluzza 5 · Siena
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